Loneliness is

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Loneliness is

Choose one as an absolute. If there is cause for multiple responses being equally accurate, please respond with your definition.

[no name no slogan]

1. Loneliness is bad. But solitude is golden.

[Dangerously Amused]

2. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

...but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein

[LeftyMom]

3. It just

is. I try not to focus on it because there's not much I can do to change it at the moment.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. life.

...my life...

[u4ic]

7. Mine too...

:hug:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

11. .

:hug:

[LaraMN]

5. A warm gun....oh wait....that's happiness.

If that's happiness, I'm not sure I want to know what loneliness "is".:P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. A cold bullet?

:shrug:

[Random_Australian]

6. What life was for my last 17 years, but is not now...

I didn't vote though. All the choices were incorrect.

[belladonna]

8. The person you thought loved you being in the same room

But still feeling lonely.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. A flower dying in the desert, my dear HypnoToad.......

With the river just beyond......

And the sun burning down relentlessly......mercilessly....

Can you feel it withering your life, your love?

I can.......

[Deja Q]

13. But the sun hasn't set yet and there's still a 25% chance of rain.

:)

(see, I'm not a pessimist. :7 )

[tibbir]

12. The flower dying in the desert would be my choice

butbeing in a crowded room of partying people knowing no one is pretty bad too

[In_The_Wind]

14. Part of the transition.

I voted for paradox.

[wildhorses]

15. it is the flower and the paradox

and it sucks...there is a difference between being alone and being lonely...when I first divorced I was alone and wanted it that way...now I want to be in a relationship and there is NO one out there who wants to be with me so now I am alone and DON'T want to be that way...that is loneliness and that is flower









it sucks and I am sick of it but there is NO action I can take to solve the problem...and that is the paradox

[bikebloke]

16. Rather than sink, I learned to swim.

I adapted and grew content with solitude. It's certainly better than mediocre company grabbed out of desperation.

Yesterday I was contacted by a bloke from my kibbutz days twenty-four years ago. Back then my life was hyper-social, and I thrived in it. Now I'm 180 degrees from that life.

[Mikimouse]

17. 'tis a double edged sword...

Lonliness is the true freedom to be a flower dying in the desert.